The respondent is 27 years old and from Syria. He was apprehended in Symi island where he was reportedly detained for 16 days. Subsequently, after a period of 13 months living in an abandoned building on the island, the respondent reported that he was transferred to an open camp on Leros island where he was detained for one month prior to being transferred to a PRDC on Kos island where he was detained for ten months. The respondent described the open camp in Leros as consisting of accommodation containers, surrounded by a large fence. The respondent reported that there was limited accommodation in the open camp, therefore he was forced to live in an abandoned building for 13 months prior to entering Leros camp for one month. He was then transferred to a PRDC in Kos island where he was detained for ten months. The respondent described the PRDC in Kos as “Very disgusting, not organised or clean” and that “there is a really high fence and barbed wire on the top.” The respondent stressed the lack of legal information and support available within the PRDC, reporting: “Even if you ask a policeman to take a picture of a document with his phone they won’t.” Furthermore, he reported the presence of an interpreter at the facility but he explained that they were not able to communicate as they spoke different Arabic dialects. The respondent also shared that “[The officers] broke our phone cameras before we entered the place.” He further explained that he was detained in a cell with seven or eight people, and that they were sharing one toilet and shower. For exercise, the respondent reported that there was about 10-15 square metres outside. He reported that the police treated detainees like “criminals”. He continued: “[The guards] don’t call you by your name but by the number that they give you when you enter this place.” The respondent reported that there was only one doctor present at the facility and that painkillers were the only medication provided to detainees. He reported that although psychological support was available it was not easy to book an appointment and he was only able to do so with the support of an NGO. During the time in which he was detained, the respondent reported that a 35 year-old man reportedly died due to deprivation of medical assistance. The respondent reported that his physical and psychological condition worsened significantly during his detention at the PRDC in Kos island. “When I came in I weighed 75 kg and when I got out I was something in the 40s. Psychologically I felt worse than [after] the war in Syria.”